Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Yu endured a Yin Fire calamity that opened his Purple Palace, completed his five spirits and five Heart Forms, and emerged with a greatly strengthened body. The purple flames receded, but his breakthrough continued as the Wind Spirit transformed into a strange wind and began ravaging his body.

• Uchiha Yu lost control of the separated spirit energies as Yin Fire rose from his Yongquan acupoints, then watched it burn through his body and erupt in his Purple Palace.
• Uchiha Yu’s purple flames created a complete mind world, where his four Heart Forms protected their territories through a flood and gave birth to a fifth Heart Form from the northern sea.
• Uchiha Yu recognized the new Heart Form as Kidney Kun and concluded that his five spirits and five forms were complete, then left the Purple Palace and woke beneath the sea.
• Uchiha Yu endured the purple flames repeatedly forging and strengthening his body before they withdrew to the Purple Palace.
• Uchiha Yu realized his body remained stiff and his breakthrough was unfinished, then the Wind Spirit erupted from his Baihui acupoint and poured through his organs and nine orifices.

Uchiha Yu completed a breakthrough by tempering his body with Fire, Wind, and Thunder Spirit natural energy, then deliberately enduring lightning to restore coordination among his strengthened bodily systems. He emerged with improved perception and control over natural energy, leaving him amazed by his new ability to influence storms and create a waterspout.

• Uchiha Yu endured the Wind Spirit's painful cleansing underwater, which removed waste from his body and restored its flexibility.
• Uchiha Yu discovered that Thunder Spirit energy could not be blocked by seawater, and a lightning strike revealed that his strengthened bodily systems were badly uncoordinated.
• Uchiha Yu swam to the surface and deliberately drew stronger lightning strikes to activate and rebalance his body, while Miwa Masayo watched in confusion.
• Uchiha Yu's coordination improved under the lightning, sharpening his vision and strengthening his optic nerves, and he stopped the cleansing once he felt the balance was sufficient.
• Uchiha Yu dispersed the thunderclouds with natural energy, discovered he could control their movement, and created a waterspout by combining wind and water.

Uchiha Yu completed his breakthrough, returned to find the Three-Tails gone, and learned Orochimaru had engineered a crisis within Kirigakure. The Fourth Mizukage returned to a village on the brink of renewed infighting and was caught in Sharingan genjutsu.

• Uchiha Yu told Miwa Masayo that his breakthrough had greatly increased his strength and let him control some natural energy, though his new ability was fading and he still could not control Earth Spirit energy.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo returned to the battlefield, found no trace of the Three-Tails, and spotted two strange fish that he suspected were Samehada.
• Orochimaru admitted he had failed to defeat Karatachi Yagura but had killed many Kirigakure ninja, deliberately worsening tensions among the village's clans.
• Uchiha Yu recognized that Orochimaru's killings were designed to provoke Kirigakure into another prolonged internal conflict, and Orochimaru praised him for understanding the plan.
• Karatachi Yagura returned to Kirigakure as its clans and villagers faced mounting tension, then became trapped in Sharingan genjutsu while considering whether to revive the Village of the Bloody Mist policy.

Uchiha Madara rewrote Karatachi Yagura’s memories and continued searching for an Uchiha successor, while Uchiha Yu traded the Tiger Unit’s tactics to Orochimaru for the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu. After learning he had at most a month before his battlefield deeds were reported to the Third Hokage, Uchiha Yu prepared to investigate the evil god and a suspicious underground cavern and arrange the Tiger Unit’s leadership.

• Uchiha Madara altered Karatachi Yagura’s memories to make him pursue policies that served Madara’s plans, then returned to his underground base in a near-death state.
• Uchiha Madara asked Black Zetsu to report on Uchiha Clan members who might awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan so he could find a successor.
• Uchiha Yu exchanged the Tiger Unit’s tactics with Orochimaru for the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu and Orochimaru’s research notes.
• Orochimaru warned Uchiha Yu that the Third Hokage would learn of his defeat of Kirigakure’s Fourth Mizukage and jinchūriki within a month.
• Uchiha Yu planned to use the remaining time to investigate the evil god and the cavern beneath Kubota Village and prepare for his departure from the Tiger Unit.

Uchiha Yu reorganized the Tiger Unit and explained why its members needed to remain strong despite Konoha’s unfair treatment. He then hunted for evidence of evil gods, found promising cultist leads through the Bingo Book Exchange, and was ambushed after accepting three missions.

• Uchiha Yu divided the Tiger Unit into three companies balanced by Uchiha Hesi, and told the commanders that strength and influence would be needed to prevent future injustice.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo returned to the Land of Hot Water and destroyed dozens of cults, but found no evil gods.
• Uchiha Yu speculated that Susanoo drew on a dead god’s power and sought a divine source he could control himself.
• Uchiha Yu entered the Bingo Book Exchange in disguise, found a bounty listing his life at 700,000 ryō, and identified three cultists who had encountered divine power.
• Uchiha Yu accepted the three missions concerning the cultists and left the exchange, where four masked ninja surrounded him in the wilderness.

Uchiha Yu lured out and struck down a river god while disguising himself as the Thunder God, then learned that the tailed beasts came from the corpses of gods rather than being created by the Sage of Six Paths. The river god attacked him in its mental world, but its four strikes were stopped by a transparent barrier.

• Uchiha Yu killed four wandering ninjas with Thunder Spirit lightning and confronted Black Zetsu, who claimed to be Madara Uchiha’s will and invited him to join Madara’s plan.
• Uchiha Yu rejected Black Zetsu’s offer, warned him not to follow, and continued on while White Zetsu pursued him.
• After two cult raids failed to draw out their gods, Uchiha Yu concealed his divine aura and baited the god behind the largest cult into possessing its leader as a giant kappa.
• Uchiha Yu struck the kappa with Fivefold Lightning Strike, entered its shattered mental world, and identified its occupant as Lord Eastflow, a fusion of a hundred river gods.
• Lord Eastflow explained that chakra drove the gods into decline and that the tailed beasts were made from gods’ corpses, easing Uchiha Yu’s concern about the Sage of Six Paths.
• Lord Eastflow suddenly attacked Uchiha Yu with four heads, but every strike hit a transparent barrier.

Uchiha Yu captured the River God, then set out with Miwa Masayo to find the source of the pressure she sensed in the Land of Hot Water. Meanwhile, Konoha's leaders decided to let Yu return home and rest, though Orochimaru delayed delivering the order so Yu could continue teaching the Snake Unit.

• Uchiha Yu shattered the River God's mindscape with his Great Sage Equal to Heaven Heart Form, captured the revived god, and sealed it in a basin in the clouds of his Purple Mansion.
• Uchiha Yu killed a pursuing White Zetsu but secretly marked it with Flying Thunder God; after White Zetsu revived, Black Zetsu read its memories and planned to tell Uchiha Madara about Yu.
• At a hot spring, Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo discussed tracking the surviving White Zetsu to Uchiha Madara, then decided to investigate the pressure that had returned to Miwa Masayo.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned Shimura Danzō, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu, reprimanded Danzō over his failed attempt to kill Uchiha Yu, and agreed with the others to let Yu return home to rest.
• Orochimaru received the order to send Uchiha Yu home but put it aside, intending to use the remaining six days of Yu's promised month to give the Snake Unit more lessons.

Uchiha Yu avoided a confrontation with Yugito Nii by using the Flying Thunder God Technique to take Miwa Masayo to the Kubota Ruins. There, he developed a plan to build a hidden Divine Court in his Purple Mansion and tested whether the River God could reveal its divine abilities by swallowing his great hall.

• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo found Yugito Nii and her Kumogakure escorts, but Yu chose not to fight and teleported away with the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Matatabi sensed that Yu and Miwa were hundreds of kilometers away, and Yugito Nii's jonin escorts urged her to relocate.
• At the Kubota Ruins, Miwa went hunting while Uchiha Yu entered his Purple Mansion and considered how to build a secret organization.
• Uchiha Yu abandoned his chakra-platform plan and decided to establish a Divine Court using the River God's powers and the Purple Mansion.
• Uchiha Yu reasoned that eating the River God would not grant him its abilities, so he made the River God swallow the divine hall to expose its divine soul.
• Uchiha Yu enlarged the River God and shrank the divine hall until the hall fit into its mouth, then released the size-altering power and stretched the River God over the hall.

Uchiha Yu subdued the River God and confirmed its divine abilities, then became determined to kill Shimura Danzō after his growing obsession and Orochimaru’s covert assistance pushed him toward action. The next morning, Uchiha Yu noticed something unusual but postponed investigating it to help Miwa Masayo make a new cat bed.

• Uchiha Yu pinned down the River God, confirmed that it had developed a unified will, and returned it to the water vat as an ordinary red-tailed goldfish.
• Uchiha Yu studied divine abilities while Miwa Masayo practiced her moonlit cultivation, balancing the wild instincts she had unleashed through play and hunting.
• Uchiha Yu decided to kill Shimura Danzō, using his resentment to resolve his growing obsession and taking note of Orochimaru’s map of Root and the laboratory reward.
• Uchiha Yu predicted that the Shimura Clan would collapse after Danzō’s death and considered how other Konoha clans might retaliate against it.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo practiced drawing in the rising sun’s purple qi, and Miwa asked him to make her a new cat bed.
• Uchiha Yu noticed something unusual while preparing the cat bed but told Miwa Masayo it could wait until they finished.

Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo descended into an underground cavern beneath the sinkhole and discovered a vast cache built around the Divine Tree’s roots. They looted it for hours, but ran out of storage space before they could take everything.

• Uchiha Yu sensed that the White Zetsu bearing his Flying Thunder God mark was beneath the sinkhole, and he and Miwa Masayo decided to explore it that night.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo entered through the flooded sinkhole, passed a spherical boulder blocking its base, and killed White Zetsu sentries on their way underground.
• Uchiha Yu identified the enormous roots supporting the cavern as remnants of the Divine Tree, and he and Miwa Masayo found thousands of dormant White Zetsu but almost no active guards.
• Uchiha Yu decided to loot and destroy the hidden cavern to keep Black Zetsu from discovering them, while he and Miwa Masayo worked separately to harvest the roots and their contents.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo filled their secret warehouses with White Zetsu, root materials, fungi, and other finds, then stopped when they exhausted their storage supplies.

After destroying the underground Divine Tree cavern and returning to Konoha, Uchiha Yu found Root ninja surrounding his home and exposed their surveillance, nearly provoking a clash with the Uchiha clan. He subdued the Root agents and was welcomed by his neighbors, leaving the conflict with Root publicly revealed.

• Uchiha Yu ignited the cavern's roots, escaped with Miwa Masayo, and relied on a planned flood to erase their traces.
• Uchiha Yu completed his mission handover with Orochimaru and quietly returned to Konoha after the Third Hokage's agreed month had ended.
• Root ninja followed Uchiha Yu home and established a surveillance post outside his house, prompting him to confront them.
• Uchiha Yu's Thunder Shout exposed the Root ninja and drew Uchiha neighbors, who prepared to fight when Root threatened them.
• Uchiha Yu used his Sharingan to incapacitate fifteen Root ninja, then reassured his neighbors and promised them a feast as the Military Police Force arrived.

After eating a Wood Style chakra crystal, Uchiha Yu transformed the Purple Mansion world and gained a new power, then unleashed Wood Style in the Valley of the End. He prepared to demonstrate his power to arriving Konoha forces and give the Third Hokage trouble.

• Uchiha Yu secretly monitored Shimura Danzō before Danzō left Konoha for an assassination mission in the Land of Rain.
• Uchiha Yu traveled to the Valley of the End and ate one of the Wood Style chakra crystals Miwa Masayo had found.
• Uchiha Yu's consciousness was trapped in the Purple Mansion, where blue rain transformed the world with abundant new plant life and reshaped its cloud continent.
• Uchiha Yu returned to reality amid uncontrolled chakra leakage, and Miwa Masayo's attempt to burn away the rapidly growing branches caused a massive explosion.
• Uchiha Yu recovered control of his chakra and, expecting Anbu to investigate the blast, announced his new power and used Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence!

Uchiha Yu used Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence to create a vast forest in the Valley of the End, and Konoha’s leaders realized the jutsu’s wielder was hostile to them. The chapter ended with a disguised figure confronting Hiruzen Sarutobi and asking four questions about his failures and claim to be the strongest Hokage in history.

• Uchiha Yu created a forest of towering trees with Deep Forest Emergence and left with Miwa Masayo and Rika before the Anbu arrived.
• The Anbu captain sent Bird to deliver a branch to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who recognized it as evidence of Wood Style and rushed to the Valley of the End.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Konoha’s leaders inspected the forest and footprints, then ordered the evidence gathered, the forest burned, and the matter kept secret.
• A disguised figure appeared in the canopy, evaded the Anbu’s shuriken, and asked Hiruzen Sarutobi four questions about Konoha’s defeats, the deaths of Senju Nawaki and Dan Katō, and his claim to be the strongest Hokage in history.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi’s face changed color as the questions left him visibly shaken.

Uchiha Yu used a disguised Shadow Clone to unsettle Hiruzen Sarutobi and decided to kill Shimura Danzō in Konoha. After Danzō’s failed wartime operation weakened the Hokage’s standing, Yu infiltrated Root’s base and waited for a chance to strike as Danzō left at dawn.

• Uchiha Yu’s Shadow Clone challenged Hiruzen Sarutobi with questions about Konoha’s failures, then dispersed after warning that it would watch him.
• Uchiha Yu returned home with Miwa Masayo, celebrated his gains from the operation, and decided to kill Shimura Danzō while framing the death as the work of a Wood Style ninja.
• Shimura Danzō returned to Konoha after his mistaken assassination triggered a disastrous attack, and the village ordered him to stay home while his conduct further damaged Hiruzen Sarutobi’s standing.
• Uchiha Yu found Danzō in Root’s base and watched him seize ninja from the Shimura Clan and demand more recruits from the Yamanaka and Aburame Clans.
• Uchiha Yu concealed himself near Danzō, waited through his plans against Konoha’s clans, and sensed that the moment to strike had arrived when Danzō left his office at dawn.

Uchiha Yu discovered Danzo’s underground Wood Style experiment and killed him in a concealed ambush after freeing the surviving children. He recovered Danzo’s Mangekyō Sharingan and looted the sealed room, while the fate of the surviving children and Root’s destruction remained unresolved.

• Uchiha Yu followed Shimura Danzō to a laboratory where researchers tested Hashirama cells on children and found Senju Tobirama’s flesh sample and a Mangekyō Sharingan in a sealed room.
• Uchiha Yu used Wood Style to slaughter the researchers and Root ninja, then rescued eleven children whose corruption was not too severe and discovered that one boy had successfully fused with Hashirama cells.
• Uchiha Yu disguised the laboratory as a Wood Style accident and waited for Shimura Danzō to leave the sealed room.
• Shimura Danzō emerged and inspected a shattered jar, allowing Uchiha Yu to ambush him with a wooden spike that destroyed his brain.
• Uchiha Yu recovered the Mangekyō Sharingan from Shimura Danzō’s corpse, then entered the sealed room and took its specimens, scrolls, weapons, and money.

Uchiha Yu looted Shimura Danzō’s secret chamber, then exposed Root’s Wood Style experiments and drove Konoha’s jonin into fury at the Third Hokage. Hiruzen Sarutobi survived the crisis through political bargains, while Uchiha Yu returned home and discussed improving a battlefield communication technique with Senju Tobirama.

• Uchiha Yu emptied Shimura Danzō’s secret chamber before Hiruzen Sarutobi could arrive.
• A sealing unit ninja reported Shimura Danzō’s vital signs had reached zero, and Hiruzen Sarutobi led more than two hundred jonin to Root’s base.
• Uchiha Yu released his Wood Style construct, which erupted into a vast forest and exposed Root’s underground laboratory, corpses, children, and hidden graveyard.
• The jonin blamed Shimura Danzō and questioned Hiruzen Sarutobi, who denied knowing of the crimes and promised to step down after the war.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi secured a vote of confidence by bargaining with clan heads and department leaders, while the Uchiha Clan alone voted against him.
• Uchiha Yu showed Senju Tobirama his Sharingan Shadow Transfer Technique, developed it with his advice, and told him that he had little time left.

Uchiha Yu summoned Senju Tobirama with Impure World Reincarnation, discussed the danger of the Sage of Six Paths controlling souls, and considered bringing powerful souls into his Purple Mansion. Meanwhile, Hiruzen Sarutobi planned Konoha’s response to Shimura Danzō’s death and ordered an investigation into the Wood Style ninja.

• Uchiha Yu told the crumbling Senju Tobirama that his time was nearly over, and Tobirama reflected on Yu’s unusual judgment and skill before disappearing back to the Pure Land.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo discussed how the Sage of Six Paths might control souls in the Pure Land, then proposed making several famous deceased ninja divine envoys in Yu’s Purple Mansion.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu that he would recall Orochimaru as his deputy and focus on the war while they searched for the Wood Style ninja who killed Shimura Danzō.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu to investigate likely candidates among civilian ninja and members of minor clans, especially those with unusual chakra reserves or ninjutsu skills.

Uchiha Madara approved Black Zetsu’s request to monitor Uchiha Yu, while privately reaffirming his plan to destroy the existing world. At Uchiha Itachi’s first birthday banquet, Yu’s clash with Uchiha Setsuna escalated into a public confrontation with Uchiha Fugaku, who could only order Yu confined at home.

• Uchiha Madara agreed that Black Zetsu should monitor Uchiha Yu, while insisting that Uchiha Obito remained the priority.
• Black Zetsu left Madara and, once out of his reach, vowed to make him suffer as part of its plan to free Mother.
• At Uchiha Itachi’s first birthday banquet, Uchiha Yu entered a deep Bright Moonlit Sky state and sensed that the next stage of his Immortal Path was close, though a problem in his body still blocked it.
• Uchiha Setsuna provoked Yu, who knocked him unconscious with a precisely controlled burst of sound; when a chunin challenged him, Yu slapped the ninja across the hall.
• Uchiha Yu publicly accused Uchiha Fugaku of unfairly siding with the powerful and bullying weaker clan members, then stood his ground when Fugaku challenged him.
• Uchiha Fugaku could find no effective punishment for Yu and ordered him confined at home; Yu accepted, mocked the order, and left the banquet.

During his confinement, Uchiha Yu refined three cultivation methods while Uchiha Fugaku used his Mangekyō Sharingan to foresee a possible future in which Yu could help save the clan. Fugaku lifted Yu’s confinement and appointed him president of the Study Group, but Yu still chose to seek an alliance with Orochimaru, who appeared at the courtyard.

• Uchiha Yu spent his confinement cultivating, taught Miwa Masayo the Bright Moonlit Sky state, and completed three foundational cultivation methods.
• Orochimaru returned from the Land of Hot Water front and arranged to visit Uchiha Yu that evening.
• Uchiha Fugaku recalled Yu’s warnings, activated his Mangekyō Sharingan, and used Amenotokotachi to deduce futures in which Yu helped the Uchiha Clan avoid destruction.
• Fugaku lifted Uchiha Yu’s confinement and ordered him to take over as president of the Ninjutsu and Tactics Study Group.
• Uchiha Yu accepted Fugaku’s offer but told Miwa Masayo that he trusted Orochimaru more as an ally, and Orochimaru revealed himself in the courtyard.

Uchiha Yu and Orochimaru forged a pact to support Orochimaru's bid for Fourth Hokage, while Yu refused to take responsibility for his ally's success. The next morning, Yu learned that Fugaku had appointed him president of the Ninjutsu and Tactics Study Group, and he warned Uchiha Nobutada that he might have to deal harshly with dangerous heirs.

• Orochimaru confirmed that Uchiha Yu had killed Shimura Danzō and asked Yu to support his bid to become Fourth Hokage; they agreed that Orochimaru would take an Uchiha as a disciple after becoming Hokage.
• Miwa Masayo asked whether Yu had a plan to help Orochimaru, and Yu said he would support his ally without managing his affairs; he also considered backing Namikaze Minato as a separate bet.
• After training through the night, Yu visited Uchiha Shisui's home to find out where the Study Group was operating and learned that Shisui was out running.
• Uchiha Nobutada told Yu that Fugaku had lifted his confinement and appointed him president of the Study Group, and Yu explained that his confrontation with Uchiha Setsuna had not been planned.
• Yu warned Nobutada that he might deal harshly with the elders' hopeless second-generation heirs for the Uchiha Clan's future, and Nobutada said he believed him.